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Mike Johnson: “The executive branch has the constitutional and appropriate…”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

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Press Conference on President Trump's First 100 Days and Legislative Agenda

Published | Video Starts at 32:32

So we're preventing this nonsensical waste of our time. We don't have time to waste. We gotta, as I mentioned, we gotta fix every. But as we've discussed many times in this room, The executive branch has the constitutional and appropriate legal authority to address unfair trade practices with other countries. That's exactly what President has been doing and is doing. And the results, I think, are going to be obvious at the end of this. (32:32–32:39)

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Asserts that the executive branch has the authority to address unfair trade practices.

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